News archive from 26 September 2012

Mark Noble has signed a new three-year contract with West Ham, the club have announced.
The 25-year-old, who captained the Hammers on his 200th start in Tuesday night's Capital One Cup game against Wigan, has played 224 games for the club since...

By Catherine Pye, Health reporter JAIL Mohammed Rahim A DRUG dealer from Nelson who dealt cannabis from his car has been jailed for 16 months.
Mohammed Rahim, 32, of Leeds Road, pleaded guilty to six separate counts of possession with intent to...

By Catherine Pye, Health reporter JAIL Mohammed Rahim A DRUG dealer from Nelson who dealt cannabis from his car has been jailed for 16 months.
Mohammed Rahim, 32, of Leeds Road, pleaded guilty to six separate counts of possession with intent to...

However, after agreeing the plea bargain, the Tinner trio were handed relatively mild suspended jail sentences of between 24 and 50 months.
In a long testimony, Friedrich Tinner told the court on Monday about how he met A. Q. Khan in 1975 and used his...

Everton FC, among the favourites to lift the Capital One Cup bit the dust at the third-round stage on Tuesday night as the in-form Blues were shocked by Championship side Leeds at Elland Road.
A flying start to their Premier League season had seen...

STAFF and volunteers at Croome, the historic house near Upton-upon-Severn, are celebrating a £1.8 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund fowards its restoration.
The money will go towards the £6.36 million cost of restoring the property to its...

By Catherine Pye, Health reporter A DRUG dealer from Nelson who dealt cannabis from his car has been jailed for 16 months.
Mohammed Rahim, 32, of Leeds Road, pleaded guilty to six separate counts of possession with intent to supply the class B...

Basic cellphones have generated most of Nokia's sales, holding up much better than smartphones, where it has rapidly lost share to rivals like Samsung and Apple.
With a profit margin of over 20 percent, these phones are still the company's bread and...

A KNUTSFORD-based recruitment and management consultancy Baxter Neumann is launching a new service aimed at helping graduates outclass their peers in today’s tough job market.
With recent research revealing that on average 73 applicants are now...

PERHAPS "understated" isn't the first word which comes to mind when describing the public persona of former Soft Cell frontman and latterly reinvented torch singer Marc Almond, but this show was a masterful display of precision and control....

Manchester City's poor start to the season continued as Gabriel Agbonlahor struck twice to send Aston Villa through to the fourth round of the Capital One Cup.City had twice lead the tie through Mario Balotelli and Aleksandar Kolarov, but a Gareth...

In the scandal, which broke ahead of Georgia's parliamentary elections next Monday, two television channels supportive of the opposition broadcast video showing the torture and rape of inmates in Tbilisi's main prison.
The head of the prison, his two...

Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM, once a pioneer in the smartphone arena, has rapidly lost market share in North America to Apple's snazzier iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy devices.
RIM is now attempting to reinvent itself through the launch of new line of...

President Barack Obama has challenged the international community to confront the causes of Middle East turmoil, saying the world faces "a choice between the forces that would drive us apart and the hopes we hold in common."
His speech to an...

The funeral arrangements of two murdered policewomen have been released as their relatives joined hundreds of their colleagues and the public for a vigil and minute's silence.
Pcs Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, had been called to a burglary on...